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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Well, we're just All-American queers.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?
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Rita Mae Brown |
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My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.
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sappho
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Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?
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what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and see? they don't know nothing about being dead.
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you can't be a doctor. Only boys can be doctors. Leroy's got to be the doctor." "You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than I am. I got to be doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter." "You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl." I hauled off and belted ..
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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I have always believed a window into a person's true nature is how they treat animals, children, and the elderly. A person who mistreats animals isn't worth knowing. A person who mistreats children--especially those who abuse and kill them--should be shot without wasting any taxpayer money for a trial and for feeding them in prison. When a perpetrator of heinous crimes can live in a climate-controlled environment and eat three meals a day w..
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Rita Mae Brown |
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I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain. Passion. Find your passions. The
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Rita Mae Brown |
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The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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I don't care whether they like me or not. Everybody's stupid, that's what I think. I care if I like me, that's what I truly care about.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voila!
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youth
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Every time you behold the Blue Ridge Mountains, every time you feel a snowflake on your eyelashes, every time you see a frog on a lily pad, every time a friend gives you his hand, Brooks, God loves you. You're surrounded by His love. We look for it in all the wrong places as we pray for worldly success. We say that must be proof of God's love. Some people pray not for material success but for an easy life." He shook his head. "No, even our ..
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Rita Mae Brown |
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At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it's one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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That's animals, same thing doesn't happen to people does it? That's gonna happen to me someday, too? No, not me. I ain't dying. I don't care what they say, I ain't dying. I'm not lying on my back under the ground in everlasting darkness. Not me. I'm not closing my eyes. If I close my eyes, I might not open them.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.
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Well?" He thought about it now. "I think a woman's sphere can be taxing, and perhaps for you, as you indicate, boring. I would hate to think of you being bored! I-- I am rather afraid I would bore you. I am not a wealthy or an educated man." "But you are a brave one. You fought, and I suppose you will again." Catherine stared intently into his eyes. "Captain Schuyler, if you would let me be me, you would never bore me. I truly do want to ri..
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Rita Mae Brown |
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You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Cazenovia
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PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Given that 80 percent plus of the U.S. population lives in cities and suburbs, the connection with nature is fading to the detriment of all living creatures.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.
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Rita Mae Brown |
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I hope there is a special hell for people who mistreat animals.
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animals-rights
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Rita Mae Brown |
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small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Raleigh
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Rita Mae Brown |
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full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Rita Mae Brown |